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Liberty gets a 'lift
Scaffolding rises higher and higher around the Statue of Liberty yesterday in New York Harbor as renovations on the
national landmark give her a whole different (out)look. The scaffolding is the first step in a project which will give a new
look to this symbol of freedom. The project is being directed by Lee lacocca, chairman of the board of the Chrysler
Corporation.
ouse nearing vote on $49 billion tax increase
By JIM LUTHER
AP Tax Writer
WASHINGTON The House neared a
decisive vote yesterday on the key element
of the government's deficit-reduction effort
a $49 billion tax increase affecting liquor,
cigarettes, telephones and businesses.
The bill was written by the Democratic
controlled Ways and Means Committee. But
because the measure• does not tamper with
President Reagan's across-the-board tax
cut for individuals, the administration
supports it, provided that the tax bill is
folloWed by legislation to cut federal
spending.
Democrats were confident of success.
Before the debate began, House Speaker
Thomas P. O'Neill, D-Mass., issued a
written statement hailing the bill as a fair
one that "closes tax loopholes without
In-space satellite repairs flow smoothly
Astronauts 'ecstatic' after early tests, hope to put Solar Max back to work
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
Zipping happily through their task,
two astronauts made the first in
space parts swap on a satellite
yesterday and awaited test results
that would let them put Solar Max
back to work.
In the early testing of the
satellite, everything looked good.
"Commands go in, commands go
out, telemetry flows . the rest of
the equipment looks good," said
Frank Cepollina, the boss of the
satellite repair mission. "I'm
absolutely ecstatic."
So were the repairmen.
the
daily
hurting the average family."
"It rejects Reagan's 'supply-side'
economics, puts the government on the firm
footing of pay-as-you-go, and cuts the
Reagan deficit," O'Neill said.
Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-111., chairman
of the Ways and Means Committee, said
that while revenues in the measure were
fairly modest, passage would signal that
Congress is prepared to attack the deficit.
"It is one more ounce of faith that we give
a doubting nation," he said.
House Republican Leader Robert Michel
of Illinois said Congress still has no firm
commitment to cut spending. He read a
letter in which Reagan wrote: "I will insist,
through use of the veto if necessary, that the
remainder (of any deficit reduction) be
achieved through the appropriations
process later this year."
• Most of the $49.2 billion measure
"I tell you, everything worked
like a charm," said James van
Hoften as he worked with George
Nelson in the space shuttle cargo
bay. "Haven't had one glitch yet."
The two spent seven hours, seven
minutes outside the cabin almost
five turns around the Earth
breaking by six minutes the
spacewalking record set by Skylab
astronauts in 1973.
Afterward, the shuttle's robot
arm lifted Solar Max high over the
shuttle, holding it there as an •
athlete might hold his trophy, while
engineers on the ground switched on
electrical power and monitored its
systems.
Officials said they might not know
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would bring the government through Sept.
30, 1987, would come from upper-income
investors and corporations. Most
individuals would find the impact relatively
slight.
A fifth of 100-proof liquor would go up 75
cents; the 16-cent tax on a pack of cigarettes
would drop next year to only 12 cents, rather
than the 8-cent level required under present
law; the 3 percent tax on telephone service,
which.costs 75 cents on a $25 monthly bill,
would remain an extra two years past the
Dec. 31, 1985, expiration. And a new tax
break of up to $450 a year per saver would be
repealed before it goes into effect next year.
The Senate continued debating a similar
tax bill, one raising $4B billion without
affecting the tax on cigarettes. Senators
rejected an amendment to 'create a $7OO
million program of health care for
unemployed workers, and agreed to delete a
until early this morning whether the
satellite was now healthy enough to
be released into its own orbit and
resume its job of studying the sun. If
not, it would be returned to a cradle
in the Challenger cargo bay and
brought home Friday morning.
Air Force weathermen were less
than optimistic about conditions for
the planned 7:07 a.m. EST landing
at Kennedy Space Center. They said
chances were only 60-40 for
acceptable cloud conditions. If the
weather doesn't improve, NASA
could either extend the flight a day
or two or land at Edwards Air Force
Base in California.
"The spacecraft checkout looks
like it was going just fine," the
House committee rebukes
CIA mining in Nicaragua
By R. GREGORY NOKES
AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON The House
Foreign Affairs Committee
overwhelmingly condemned the
CIA-directed mining of Nicaraguan
harbors yesterday, even as Reagan
administration officials said
privately that the mining probably
would not be resumed.
The committee adopted a non
binding resolution against spending
U.S. funds for the mining operation
on a 23-1 vote less than 24 hours
after the Republican-led Senate
approved a similar measure by an
84-12 margin.
The Soviet Union said yesterday
that the Senate vote against the
mining collapsed President
Reagan's "big stick" foreign policy
"like a house of cards."
The report by the official news
agency Tass accused the Reagan
administration of relying "heavily
on brute military force."
"The whole wide world has seen
how the big lie, used by the U.S.
president to mislead public opinion
and make the Americans support
his `big stick' policy in the
international arena, Central
America in particular, has utterly
collapsed like a house of cards,"
Tass said.
Student vote higher in 'B4
By TERI WELLS
Collegian Staff Writer
Voter statistics indicate that about 23 percent of the
students registered in State College voted in TueSday's
primary, election.
Of the 10 precincts located in areas heavily populated
by students, the lowest student turnout was recorded at
Pollock Dining Hall. Pollock reported a 10 percent
turnout.
Overall, 35 percent of the borough's more than 10,000
registered voters went to the polls Tuesday. The
highest turnout was reported in the southeast precinct
located at the Easterly Parkway Elementary School,
234 Easterly Parkway, where about 50 percent of the
Voters came out.
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Of the student districts, the highest turnout about
32 percent was recorded at the State College Area
Senior High School, Westerly Parkway.
Undergraduate Student . Government President Emil
Parvensky said Tuesday's student voter turnout was
greater than that of previous years. He estimated that
past voter turnout for students living in dormitory
astronauts were told before they
went to sleep. Engineers at
Goddard Space Flight Center in
Maryland were conducting the
tests.
Nelson and Van Hoften called
"Pinky" and "Ox" by their
colleagues worked much of the
time strapped onto a platform on
the pnd of the crane, taking turns
changing out the units. The crane
was guided by Terry Hart.
The job went faster than
expected. NASA had programmed
the work to last 5 hours and 20
minutes. Nelson and Van Hoften did
it in 3 hours 45 minutes, despite the
distractions of their view.
chairman of the House committee,
said he would try to take the
measure to the House floor today.
The dissenting vote was cast by
Rep. Gerald B. Solomon, R-N.Y.
Rep. William S. Broomfield of
Michigan, senior committee
Republican, voted for the
resolution and predicted it would
pass the Democratic-controlled
House by a large margin.
Broomfield also predicted
Congress would halt the
administration's program of aid to
Nicaraguan rebels by rejecting its
emergency request for $2l million
to continue covert activities against
the leftist Sandinista government in
Managua.
Summing up for a growing
number of legislators, Broomfield
said, "I was not informed of what
was going on and I have been
indignant about it ever since I
found, out about it."
The House resolution, similar to
the one approved by the Senate,
expressed "the sense of Congress
that no additional funds be used to
mine the ports or territorial waters
of Nicaragua." The resolution does
not carry the weight of law.
Senior administration officials,
who spoke only on condition that
they not be identified, said the
provision that could have subjected some of
U.S. workers' tax-exempt foreign income to
a minimum tax.
Endorsing a tax reduction for investors,
the Senate approved a provision reducing to
six months the 12-month minimum period
that property must be owned before profits
from its sale qualify for preferential tax
treatment as a capital gain. The Senate
rejected, 82-i4, an amendment that would
have kept the holding period at 12 months.
The Republican-controlled Senate Budget
Committee also narrowly approved a $l5O
billion deficit-reduction package.
By a virtual party-line vote of 11-10, the
committee agreed to a budget blueprint that
incorporates the three-year package of tax
increases and defense and domestic
spending restraints that Reagan worked out
with senior GOP senators. However,
members of the committee also said they
Correction
•
Because of a reporting and editing error, it was incorrectly reported in
yesterday's Daily Collegian that incumbent Republican Congressman
William F. Clinger Jr. defeated Democrat William Wachob for the 23rd
district seat.
Because yesterday's election was a primary, the two did not run
against each other. However, Clinger and Wachob will oppose each other
for the seat in the November general election.
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Rep. Dante B. Fascell, D-Fla.,
areas was between 5 and 10 percent.
Parvensky said the number of student voters has _
been steadily•increasing.
"Students are realizing that they can have a positive
impact on how their government is run," he said. -
"They are starting to see , that taking a more active Tole
in government is necessary in order for their needy to
be fulfilled."
Interfraternity Council President Maury Billig said
the student turnout was much higher than he had
expected.
Parverisky said that he believes the number of
registered voters listed as living in student areas of the ,
borough is inflated because University students often
relocate.
He also said turnout among Republican voters may
have been lower than usual because Ronald Reagan
was the only Republican presidential candidate listed
on the ballot.
Parvensky said he believes the strong campaigning
by local Gary Hart headquarter members was the
reason Hart took first place in all 19 borough precincts
initial phase of the mining ended
Friday before the Senate vote
Tuesday night and likely would
not be resumed.
Some administration sources
said it was pointless to resume the
mining because it had
accomplished its purpose of
disrupting Nic:araguan arms
shipments to Salvadoran
insurgents.
But one senior State Department
official said the mounting political
outcry against the mining was a
major reason why it probably will
not be continued.
Said Fascell: "I didn't know
when it started, so I am not sure
whether it has stopped."
The State Department official
acknowledged that the CIA might
be reluctant to resume the mining
after the Senate's approval of the
anti-mining resolution sponsored
by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-
Mass., and backed by Senate
Majority Leader Howard H. Baker
Jr., R-Tenn., and GOP Whip Ted
Stevens of Alaska.
President Reagan gave his
written approval for the mining in
February, Sen. Barry Goldwater,
R-Ariz., disclosed Tuegday in a
sharply critical letter to CIA
Director William Casey.
thought the military spending reductions
are too little and the resulting deficits are
too big.
Under the plan envisioned by
congressional leaders, the tax increases will
open the way for new spending reductions to
produce a package this year that would
reduce the deficit by $l5O billion to $2OO
billion over the next three years. Congress
had a hard time coming up with a package
that size although it would be hardly more
than a drop in the bucket since the deficits
are expected to total at least $544 billion,
and perhaps as much as $7OO billion, during
the same three years.
Economists, investment authorities and
members of Congress agree the rising
federal deficits will eventually drain off so
much of the available credit that the
homebuilding and automobile industries
will suffer, setting off a new recession.